Half-Day Cape Peninsula Tour from Cape Town

Tour muito interessante e bonita porém o nosso guia atrasou-se para ir buscar-nos e por isso estragou a excursão inteira, quase não paramos nos lugares que dizia na brochura, os poucos lugares que paramos era sempre temos muito pouco tempo 5min e vamos embora estamos muito atrasados. Quando chegamos ao Cabo da Boa Esperança descemos do carro ele tirou uma foto e fomos logo para porque mais uma vez estávamos “atrasados”, chegamos ao farol não aproveitamos absolutamente nada tivemos de descer logo porque ele tinha outra tour. Tivemos de dizer a ele algumas vezes para abrandar porque estava a ir com excesso de velocidade. Sem contar que passou a viagem inteira a pedir-nos gorgetas. O nome do guia é Michael Ângelo.

Did a private half-day Cape Peninsula tour and picked up right on time at the hotel. Our driver, Reginald, was really knowledgeable and gave us lots of information as we were driving throughout the day. We went to Cape Point well before the tour buses and was really quiet so great to take pictures, look around etc. Boulders Beach and the penguins was our second stop and we never felt rushed at all spending around 40 minutes there. Finally we came back through Chapmans Peak Drive and had a number of stops for photos and views at Noordhoek Beach & Hout Bay and we never felt rushed at all. We arrived back at the hotel 30 minutes after our drop off time but no complaints from the driver or mention of being late. Really enjoyed the private tour and would recommend ... ask for Reginald !

Unclear how AE manages their staff but there are some tour guides that should not be drivers. Our driver/guide, was surly at best, filled of complaints about other drivers on the road while driving erratically. My travel agent had warned that the tour itself might feel rushed, but I was hopeful. Now, I think I would’ve had a better experience on a hop on hop off bus for the ‘limited’ time (10-15 min) we had at each location. As an example, I only had a 15-min window to walk down to the pier to check out the Penguins, and I never made it to the lighthouse. There were five other patrons and for whatever reason their entry fees were not pre-paid so the driver ended up waiting in the queue, and was very upset about it. The redeeming moment — when our driver handed us off to another driver, Abdul, who so kindly brought us to the ocean to dip our feet.